When was the last time you dropped off a roll of film to be developed at the local drug store or supermarket? Walgreens software developers were sure there was a way to get people to come back in to pick up pictures again. But the competition was removing its photo development in the face of the growing popularity of digital photography.

In San Francisco as part of the I Love APIs Apigee event, Kevin Toms from Philips Hue Developer Program is at the forefront of how an established business is reorienting toward an API-focused digital future. He spoke with ProgrammableWeb about how developers are working with Hue and where the move will take the lightbulb manufacturer.

Apigee has put together a number of open source tools for creating APIs and a number of related service. The toolkit is called Apigee-127 and it contains the following tools: Swagger Editor 2.0 – authoring API specifications in YAML and generate corresponding documentation; Swagger tools for message validation and routing; Volos.js – libraries for setting up quota, OAuth and caching services; Apache Usergrid – a BaaS providing a number of back-end services: user management, data storage, queues, etc.